[Starlink] Info on IP country ranges

[J Pan]

yes, starlink does respond to its customers' complaints, although
sometimes slowly. its ipv4 address acquisition is scattered around as
a latecomer to the isp world, and as a global local isp, it's more
troublesome. ip packets have to be tunneled back to its home pop where
nat and other functions happen, sometimes around the world, causing a
much higher minimum rtt fluctuation in 15-second handover
intervals---bad for network protocols and applications. ipv6 can do
better but currently follows the same route as ipv4---an incentive to
promote ipv6 ;-)
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J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 4:04 AM Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
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> Thanks, it seems they are trying it on then :)
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> On 04/12/2023 10:44, J Pan wrote:
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> starlink advertises its customer ip address location at
> http://geoip.starlinkisp.net (not always updated but good enough in
> most cases and traceroute can confirm to some extent as well)
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> J Pan, UVic CSc, ECS566, 250-472-5796 (NO VM), Pan at UVic.CA, Web.UVic.CA/~pan
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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 4:15 PM Noel Butler via Starlink
> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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> I run an open access usenet server, but only for those within my CC, so access is by IP based on our CC allocations from APNIC.
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> Because IPv4 exhaustion this changes sometimes with buying allocations from other regions, and if they get denied access I encourage them to let us know so we can keep ACL's updated, I've had a request from a starlink user who claims they are here, but traceroute shows them in .DE
>
> tracing some 217.foo.ad.dr
>
> ...
> 9 ae-6.r21.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.183) 290.223 ms 290.180 ms ae-1.r20.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.7.35) 280.523 ms
> 10 ae-1.a03.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.152) 290.109 ms 289.667 ms 292.864 ms
> 11 ae-0.spacex.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (213.198.72.19) 279.611 ms 278.840 ms 279.592 ms
> 12 undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.189) 280.127 ms 278.506 ms 284.265 ms
> 13 undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.209) 284.198 ms undefined.hostname.localhost (206.224.65.201) 274.663 ms 273.073 ms
> 14 * * *
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> As it is our policy to not collect any user info or issue user/pass's and  only allow access by IP, I'm hoping someone here knows if they are full of it, or does starlink really assign addresses from anywhere? That one hardly makes sense for user experience, or maybe starlink has so few users in this country they haven't bothered changing anything yet?
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> Regards,
> Noel Butler
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